Salzburg 1582-SR 2 ducat Fr-636
This specimen was lot 30406 in Heritage sale 3073 (Chicago, April 2019), where it sold for $1,800. The catalog description[1] noted, "Salzburg. Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasi gold 2 Ducats 1582 AU58 NGC. A lesser seen and indisputably difficult type to attain, especially so in near-uncirculated condition. Well-struck and lustrous, with a slight curvature to the flan, as made." The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type is listed for 1569-85 and is the first really affordable double ducat from this locale. In the seventeenth century it was blessed with a number of productive silver mines and the prince-archbishop was a prolific issuer of coins, particularly thalers. The archbishopric was secularized in 1803 and passed to Austria in 1814.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 7 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 6.85 g.
Catalog reference: Zöttl 573. Fr-636.
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- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
- [1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano and Warren Tucker, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3073, featuring the Lake County Collection of British coins, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2019.
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